Thanks for the kind comments, folks/
A little more detail...
We went to central Montana for Hungarian partridge and sharptail grouse on the 18th, and spent some time with friends in Bozeman, hunted some beautiful country. We did quite well.
The mattress is a featherbed over the standard Maggiolina mattress, and a down bag on top. The truck is one that I bought when I sold my FJ60 earlier this year. It's got most of the whistles and bells you'd want to travel comfortably in the outback.
The avian samples were prepared on a portable device using a carbon residue from mesquite trees, with chunks of alder wood soaked in water. Imagine a dozen and a half partridges in the round, grilled golden brown, with a few bottles of Pinot Noir, roasted winter squash, and salad, followed by sharing a bottle of Calvados, and toasting the trip, the birds, the dogs, all present, and, of course, the beautiful state of Montana.
This was a marketing trip, of course, and we were doing product testing and photos. My companion is a professional photo journalist specializing in outdoor subjects. This is his photo.
I got a cell call on the way home and stopped in Hailey, Idaho, and sold the tent to a fellow who really needed a Maggiolina Grand Tour (small). This provides me an opportunity to put yet another tent on top of the cruiser to 'test'. I really like the 80, and it does the job on and off road.
M
bigreen505 said:
Great trip, tell us more.
So Mike, we know all about the tents (though that Maggiolina looks like it has a bit of a mattress mod you might need to divulge), but you've been holding out on us about the truck. Spill it, and with pictures please. :elkgrin:
Also, do you have any recommended solutions or procedures for testing the avian protein samples that you would care to divulge? On one trip a friend of a friend brought a propane heated oil bath with a proprietary blend that tested very positively among the assembled focus group (especially after a very hard day of sailing).
